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I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by k4rli »

mattfrommars wrote: post #31

People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.

Even with RN I've had to learn Swift and also often need xcode for configuring targets and such. RN helps in some ways but native apps are so much better in the long run.

RN libraries are so often buggy and disappointing in my experience.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by hombre_fatal »

mattfrommars wrote: post #31

People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.

It doesn't really make sense to call it vendor lock-in when you're learning a platform's native API and idiosyncrasies.

That would apply more to React Native since you are stuck with its vendored abstractions and you can't just swap out React Native once you've built with it.

I think you're commenting on how iOS development is a less portable skill than a toolkit than runs on all platforms. Or that your iOS app is stuck on one platform. That is certainly true. But don't overlook the value of expertise in a native platform instead of just one set of abstractions that run on top of it. There are things you can do on the native platform, like optimizing performance, that you can't do using something like React Native.

It's all just trade-offs.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by serial_dev »

mattfrommars wrote: post #31

People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.

If you want to develop mobile apps and you want to have users, there is no way around vendor lock in and walled gardens. By supporting Android, too, the only thing you’ll achieve is that you’ll be the abused in two abusive relationships instead of one.

Adding more abstractions on top will not significantly improve the fact that you are at the whims and mercy of companies that don’t care about you, so I don’t see RN as an improvement.

If you want to avoid vendor lockin, don’t do mobile apps, go to web. Then, you can also just switch RN to React simply or any other framework.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by adidoit »

rdrd wrote: post #24

As a solo/indie dev who's currently early in building a product, I've been keeping a journal of "ideas" for content in a txt file in the codebase as I hate context switching and want to build this up before I get to it. Here's what I've done: - At the top of the file I've listed my audience, 3 personas - My content has to be useful to one of those - If I see an interesting post/take on social media I hold the link an…

Same! My only challenge has been getting the product to be decent enough to the point where I start sharing these. Perhaps I shouldn't wait though...

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by ascorbic »

mattfrommars wrote: post #31

People who code for mobile development, like OP, is IOS development their full time job? Because as someone who does web development, to learn the in and out of Swift programming language and using XCode feel major vendor lockin and prefer say React Native due to its interoperability.

Usually, yes. The overwhelming majority of mobile dev jobs are platform-specific, or are specifically for a framework like React Native.

With native mobile dev, lock-in is less of a problem career-wise, because it's a duopoly, so your chosen technology is unlikely to become unfashionable like it would if you were specialised in a particular web framework.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by sneak »

antoniojtorres wrote: post #27
tacticalturtle wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From his website, I learned that he is a “VISIONAIRE, INVENTOR, and PHILANTROPIST (sic)”: https://www.sebastienlagree.com/

Maybe this is the final form of someone that permanently leaves xcode to market. Wow.

The author of the article makes a third party app that assists with these workouts, he isn’t Lagree.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by ToastBackwards »

tacticalturtle wrote: post #12
joeconway wrote: post #2

For anyone like me that’s never heard of Lagree before https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lagree-buddy-wrist-metronome/i...

From his website, I learned that he is a “VISIONAIRE, INVENTOR, and PHILANTROPIST (sic)”: https://www.sebastienlagree.com/

lol, I didn't expect this before I clicked

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by cycomanic »

I didn't know about Sebastian Lagree and Lagree Fitness, but looking him up does not leave a good impression. The press covers on is homepage look incredibly fake, e.g. a "digital cover" from cosmopolitan.ro which is clearly designed to look like he was on the cover of the real cosmopolitan. Same thing for Forbes. His "thing" seems to be a kind of modern pilates and he sues everyone who criticises him. Seems like a real wholesome person and a community I'd really like to join /s

But to each their own.

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by upmostly »

I've always struggled to find the right balance as a solo/indie dev.

However, recently I decided to try something I'm calling the SaaS Schedule Sandwich.

Each month is split into four weeks:

- Week 1: Build

- Week 2: Market

- Week 3: Build

- Week 4: Video Journal

And so far it's kept me honest and not made me go live in a cave and code for a year.

I actually released the first video journal last week for our new product:

https://youtu.be/cSY-C8oiUU8

Re: I forced myself to spend a week in Instagram instead of Xcode

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Post by rcpt »

ed wrote: post #35
joeconway wrote: post #2

For anyone like me that’s never heard of Lagree before https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lagree-buddy-wrist-metronome/i...

It’s a kind of Pilates. Sort of like Bikram for hot yoga.

Recently learned that Pilates is called what it is because it was invented by Joe Pilates
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